If you’ve been trying to access the CUPS web interface on Mac OS X 10.8 then you may have run into this error message “The web interface is currently disabled. Run “cupsctl WebInterface=yes” to enable it” (to access CUPS, Open Safari & type http://localhost:631 in the address bar) To rectify this, you basically do as …
Category Archives: Utilities
Command Line – Search
In this item I will go through a couple of the commands you can use to locate files on your system. find Surprisingly enough, to find some files you can run find, examples of usage are below find -x / -name filename this will search your boot volume for files entitled filename find / -name …
Command Line – System Administration
In this article, I will run through a few commands used to admin your machine. ps used to list processes running on the system, examples of usage below ps List processes belonging to the current user that are attached to the terminal ps -x List processes belonging to the current user, whether or not they …
Zip Files – 4GB Limit?
It appears that originally, Zip files had a 4GB limit, and the software that is part of the Mac OS is only able to open files under this size If you have zip archives over 4GB then you will need software capable of extracting this, thankfully there is The Unarchiver, a free app from http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html Download …
HELP! I’ve forgotten my administrator password – 10.7
If you have forgotten the passwords to any of your accounts on a mac then you can reset them by following these instructions Reboot your Mac and hold down ALT When it shows all available drives, choose the Recovery HD, if you have set a firmware password, then you will need to enter that before …
Spotlight – Enable/Disable
I’m a big fan of spotlight on a Mac, but there are those out there who aren’t, if you happen to be one of them then this next bit is for you, you can disable spotlight by doing the following Open Terminal and type the following sudo nano /etc/hostconfig locate the following item SPOTLIGHT=-YES- Change …
Format an external hard drive to use with Macs & PCs
Now occasionally Mac users are forced to share files with Windows users, and if using an external hard drive you will need to make sure it is readable/writable in both OS’s To do this, you will need to format the drive as FAT, this can be done with Disk Utility as follows 1. Plug your …
How do you wipe an old MacBook Air?
So, I was asked this the other day, and it can be quite tricky, basically, you need to boot from an installation disk and run Disk Utility to erase the disk. Now as the MacBook Air doesn’t have FireWire then Target Disk Mode is pretty much out of the question (although this is now an …
Dealing with Directory Corruption
If your Mac is running slow, there is a chance that you could be suffering from Directory Corruption, to find out if you are the you will need to do the following Open Disk Utility and click on your system volume, then choose Verify Disk If all is well then it will tell you with …
Repair Permissions
This is the most simple of maintenance tasks and one of the most overlooked, many people will take their machines to shops as they believe their machine has a serious problem, which can usually be fixed by this one task. To do a permissions repair you have 2 options, using the Disk Utility app (recommended …